that s a boeing 777 en route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur with 295 people on board. you can see the radar line there. it ends, simply ends there in the eastern ukraine. i can t tell by this map how close to the russian border that might be. to be clear, malaysia airlines is confirming it has lost contact with this flight. boeing, which makes the 777, also is saying it is aware of the reports and is still awaiting further information at this point. just to point out the obvious again by looking at this map, we know of the intense conflict right now raging in that part of the world. i want to bring in miles o brien right now, of course, a terrific aviation analyst, a friend of cnn. miles, we don t know much yet. what we do know, again, is that this flight was en route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. presumably it would have been at cruising altitude above 30,000 feet. we know they lost contact with it and it dropped off radar